List of Illustrations
Introduction to the English-Language Edition
Part I: Food for Thought
Chapter 1. The Body of the Divinity Captured by Signs
Part II: Eat, Speak, and Write
Chapter 2. Donkey-Skin, or Orality
Chapter 3. Little Butterpot, or the Spell of the Voice
Chapter 4. The Fabulous Animal
Chapter 5. The Reason of the Strongest is Always the Best
Chapter 6. Utopic Rabelaisian Bodies
Part III: The Culinary Sign in the Land of Fairies and Ogres
Chapter 7. Theoretical Aperitif
Chapter 8. Roast Blood Sausage, or the Gush of Performatives
Chapter 9. Robert Sauce
Chapter 10. Recipes of Power
Chapter 11. Stew and Roast, or the Mastery of Discourse and the Illusions of Eros
Chapter 12. Butcher's Meat and Game, or the Culinary Sign Within Generalized Communication
Part IV: The King's Body
Chapter 13. The Portrait of the King's Glorious Body
Chapter 14. The Pathetic Body and its Doctor: The Medical Diary of Louis XIV
Afterword: Portrait of the Translator
Bibliography
Index